Catherine Bulka

Made my fam spaghetti and garlic bread for dinner.

Husband: wow, this is delicious
4yo: it smells like diapers

Not funny, but also pretty damn funny: I did not expect my kid to look significantly sicker post-surgery than she actually is. More than a few people have quietly assumed she’s terminal, and I’m one awkward interaction away from hanging a sign around her neck that says, “I’m fine!!!”

Still here. Girly was grumpy all day until the sweetest music therapist showed up with a guitar and maracas to sing her songs and now she’s happy as a clam. The nurse also brought a play mat and toys for the room. I wish I could be a patient here lol

Spending the day at the children’s hospital for one of my kiddos (she’s ok) and wow they have really thought of everything. The waiting room has outlets and snacks, books, and board games. The doctors are texting updates every hour. It’s so sweet

YouTube video by Cameron Winter Cameron Winter - Love Takes Miles (Official Video)

I know people have a lot of feelings about Geese/Cameron Winter...but what I want to know is how the f a 23yo wrote this?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4UF...

Einstein - AI Homework Agent Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

Lolllll y’all. We are cooked.

Time to go back to blue books and abolish online only classes (but of course that’s not profitable 🤑)

companion.ai/einstein

I'm listening to the 10 Things I Hate About You soundtrack...and loving it :) Also, who remembers Sister Hazel? I had totally forgotten about them

Oof that’s harsh!

UNENROLLED??! wow

all those stupid required IT 'trainings' need to go. like just let me take the quiz and if I fail, THEN give me access to the videos/slides. i don't have time to click through all this nonsense just to get access to platforms i need to do my job

Our dog door broke so I emailed the company to ask about a replacement part. An actual human responded to me and agreed to send out the piece to fix it and gave me suggestions on how to prevent it from breaking again. What is this, the 1990s???

One of mine brought home play dough too 🫠

Once again, I want to voice that I hate Valentine’s Day and all the stupid shit my kids come home with. Can parents all agree to do only paper cards or stickers??? Kid 1 crying because kid 2 came home with a balloon and kid 3 crying because they want the candy that kid 1 has makes me 🤦🏻‍♀️

Can't tell if I'm dealing with burnout or what, but I am feeling 100% uninspired.

Anyone else?

Did I understand the lyrics? No but it was beautiful!!! Such cool sets, such passion. Loved it

Fair enough. My PO said that as long as it’s not in the title/abstract, it shouldn’t get flagged in their system

I have opinions about the 'Gulf of America' lol but this work is NIH-funded so I'm trying not to make any waves (pun intended!!!)

Extreeeeemely niche, but are there any other scientists out there researching the Gulf coast? I referred to it as the "Gulf of America (formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico)" in a manuscript and a Reviewer is now asking if that's an "officially accepted term." Thoughts on how to respond?

Also he's wrong? NIH does conduct its own studies....NIH-AARP, Sister Study, GULF Study, those are all NIH-conducted epidemiologic cohorts. I'm sure there are others.

Oof hang in there!!

these are the undergrads btw. the grad students have not pulled this BS with me (yet)

obviously there's more important stuff going on *waves hands*

but i have students *CALLING* my office phone number to complain about their grades and i've never hated my job more 🤦‍♀️

like sorry i made an assignment that you couldn't chatgpt your way through?? sorry epi is hard?

two women are standing in a living room and one of them says that 's not how this works ALT: two women are standing in a living room and one of them says that 's not how this works

CaN i ReTaKe tHe QuIz bEcAuSe I dOn'T LiKe my GrAdE???

One of my pet peeves is the misuse of the word 'toxins'....MAHA *loves* to talk about toxins in our food supply, except they almost always mean TOXICANTS (they're not talking about snake venom).

This FDOH-backed website is embarrassing: exposingfoodtoxins.com/food-toxins/

people thought Geese's performance on SNL was bad????

I'm looking for guest lecturers to speak virtually to my Environmental Epidemiology class. If you do any work related to environmental health, toxicology, GIS/spatial analysis, please reach out :) There are only 3 students so it's extremely low pressure

Cabbage is so underrated

We had flames too!! It was scary but over fast

The thing about Flu A is that you’ll deceptively feel better…and then bam it hits you again 😭

I need to continue whining publicly about the flu because now my *newly 7 yo* is sick on *her* birthday, that I already couldn’t do anything special for because I’m sick 😩😩😩😩